I hope you're all heading out to Millennium Park tonight to watch Spinal Tap! It's mandatory viewing for all guitar players. I'll be there with my bandmates and some other pals. If only we had a picnic table that was a 12" scale model of Stonehenge!
I am told that the early registration discount code will be emailed out next Monday, so watch your inboxes like hawks. It's only good for a quick second!
Last week Thursday's Guitar 4 finished the heavy lifting in The Smiths' tune. Please enjoy this brilliant use of YouTube, which combines the song with a montage of the life-is-so-hard-without-this-product moments form infomercials. Completely perfect in every way. Your homework is to practice the two "goodies" back to back so you become used to the transition between the two. The printed goodie, which you are playing only half of--but when you team up with your buddy and your powers combine...MAGIC!--slots in over the two measures of Bm. (you can play it again over the 2 measures of Bm at the end of the second verse too!) Listen to how quickly it goes! Practice practice practice! The handwritten goodie slots in over the GM7 and A, and the first beat of the Dm7 measure that starts the second verse. It comes immediately after the first goodie.The mandolin fancy business at the end is the same notes/changes as the printed outro on the song chart, but without all the super-charged strumming. I think this one might be a performance contender, so work hard at it!
Saturday's Guitar 4 worked up Just What I Needed using power chords, which are supposed to be easy but proved challenging. Take note of the intro! You play eighth note down strums on the E string ONLY for 6 beats, and then you let the chord ring on the 7th beat. Do that four times. Then play the string alone for 6 beats, followed by the chord twice on 7 and 8. Listen and it'll make sense: http://youtu.be/TsPh-EgH65M
There are a number of small lead parts you can play on the high strings (tabbed out) which mimic the keyboard parts in the song. Listen and follow along and in our next meeting will spend some more time getting those nailed down. And remember, we're swapping out the solo for two measure of plain old E, just to keep things simple. (And hey, don't let Man Who Sold the World get rusty either because I'll want to run through that again too)
And Sunday's Guitar 3 worked up CSNY's "Our House," which has some rather pleasing walk-downs. Just follow the chord charts as you alter the bass note of the chord measure by measure. Remember we're playing the bass note twice by itself in a light and bouncy way, followed by two similarly light strums on the chord. (If you listen to the recording, it's more like a 1:3 split on piano between bass note and chord, but on guitar it sounds better our way). That changes a little in the split measures, where you'll play the bass note once and then the chord once, then the next bass note and the next chord once each. Play that Eb chord by sliding a C shape up until your index finger is at the 4th fret, and then add your pinky on the 1st string 7th fret. Easy! Please feel free to throw in some "la"s so I don't have to do ALL of those by myself.
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